On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:51:18 -0600 Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:13:38AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:09:14PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > > > Well the nightmare userspace switch from ttyS to ttyO few years ago is > > > > something we want to avoid.. I think the best solution would be to make > > > > serial-omap.c transparently provide support for ttyO using the new 8250 > > > > code so both ttyS and ttyO devices would just work. Otherwise it will > > > > be years of "my serial port stopped working" questions again. > > > > > > Thata a udev problem not a kernel one surely. > > > > People also use serial console to observe the early kernel boot before > > the userspace is started. > > right, we need a way to tell the kernel that ttyO%d and ttyS%d are the > exact same device so that console=ttyO0 and console=ttyS0 mean the same > thing. That maintains backwards compatibility and lets people move on Yes.. and that possibly also means a temporary char driver that claims ttyO* and simply redirects the calls into the tty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
